Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-08-17
all of which is desirable o. to Arthur

all of which Is desirable. o. to Arthur
City.
Yesterday Engireer Lslor and his corps
of sixteen men, locating the line Of the
Fort Worth and Rio Grande line, were
met st Logan's Gap by committee OF
( Coleman citizens and pilOted in triumph
to Coleman City. Chief Engineer Cotton
has determined to run line 10
Coleman first, and then the engineers
will 60 back and run q line 10
! Brentwood. When this line Is run the
location through PaIuxy Valley will be
gene over and the entire location pre-
pared for active construction. When tie
work is under way from Granbury the en-
gineers will proceed to Coleman or Brown
wood and run the line to San Angelo
Mr.. Cotton says the Ina from Stephens
vile to tie point where the engineers now
are is fine location. The Fort Worth
and Rio Grande is strictly business, and
another August will not come until trains
are running to San Angelo.
General Freight Agent L abriskie of the
Fort Worth and Rio Grande says that
road is entitled to the medal for quick
settlement for claims for killing stock.
A few days ago train on the road killed
g calf. The owner came in at once and
made his claim. Next morning q repo. t
was received from the train men as to
the killing, The owner called that after
noon early and placed the value of his
calf st SIP. "What," sald Mr.. Zabriskie,
would be the value OF that calf if you
had put it on the market for cash sale?"
The owner answered S.. "Then here is
your money" responded the agent, and
the matter was settled and the calf paid
for in less than twenty-four hours after
being killed. Mr.. Zabriskie says that it
will be the policy Of the company to settle
all claims ust as soon as it can be done,
that the Fort Worth and Rio Grande be-
lieyes that if the people along the line are
treated fairly they will be disposed to
treat the company fairly. When they learn
that they do not have to wait
three months or more for payment Of
losses, they will not put on the extra
amounts 10 cover the heavily compound
ed interest on loss. 1t is evident that
the Fort Worth and Rio Grande will
live in peace with the people it will
serve.
Yesterday was q great day for Gran
bury, for the first locomotive and train Of
cars ever in that city pulled over the
magnificent bridge and stopped within
the city limits. At II O'Clock yesterday
morning s train of nine cars heavily
loaded with steel rails ard ties, drawn BY
brand new locomotive, left Scullyville
: with Conductor Scully in charge, anG
Engineer O'Keefe at the throttle. Presi
dent Paddock was on the train, and the
occasion was honored by the presence o.
Mrs. J. w Wlthers, Miss Fannie Withers
Miss Bush " theirs and Miss Eloise Nc
Afee, VINO rode on the forward car
D When the train reached the bridge tn,
tracklayers went to work, and the 4C(
feet of track needed to cross the bridg
was soon put down. BY the time thi
: was completed, fully 1000 peopl
S had gathered by the bridg
/ on the Granbury side to see the frs
T train cross. At o'clock the locomotive
q began its journey over the bridge and tn
nine loaded cars we're soon standing o.
the structure. Not q beam quivered, no
l q bolt moved, the bridge was as solid a
q the adamantine rock on which it rested
L In minute more the bridge was passe
s and the train pulled into Grsnbury
e Engineer O'Keefe made the welki
Il ring with the long and lou
toots from the whistle, and then th
Grsnbury people shouted, waved hanc
1t kerchiefs and hats, and crowded up t
: the train. A new era began in the city
! she was connected with the great outsid
&c world by bands of steel. The train VS.
: unloaded, and tomorrow the work
g laying track to the depot GROUND
l. will begin. About the time that the lC
connective passed into the city Of Graz
bury Contractor Hughes put down II
&c first steel rails of the rosd within th
lie corporate limits OF Fort Worth and whe
r the s O'Clock whistle blew 800 feet {
to track of the Fort Worth al
er Rio Grande rested on Fort Wor
er soil. The graders began VOL
ae yesterday in the company's yards ne
81 the Fort Worth Street Car Company
track On the first day Of Septem5
whether the Injunction case is settled
TT not, the Fort Worth and Rio Grande W
m begin to run trains regularly.
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